In a method for facilitating financing of new technology, a host computer is
connected
to a global computer network for receiving, over the network from remote computers,
information describing purported advances in technology. The host computer is accessed,
for example, by a user, to obtain the information downloaded from the global computer
network. An evaluation of the advances in technology so obtained is then performed
to determine, for each of the advances, a fixed monetary amount to be contributed
in exchange for a unit of equity in a prospective technology development venture
to develop the respective advance. Identifications of the advances together with
respective values of the determined fixed monetary amounts are transmitted over
the global computer network to preselected computers.